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Suggestions on the Inter-colonial railway and the construction of a highway and telegraph line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans within the British territory: Respectfully submitted to the Government of Canada

by: Fleming, Sandford (Sir), 1827-1915.

Publication date: 1862

Topics: Communications--Pacific Railway, Canada--Transportation, Railroads, Chemins de fer, Roads, Routes, Telegraph, T?l?graphe, 1862

Publisher: W.C. Chewett & Co. ([Toronto])

Collection: peel_print; peel; university_of_alberta_libraries; toronto

Language: English

Item Size: 13.6M

Fleming, Sandford (Sir): 1827-1915. Born and educated as surveyor and engineer in Scotland; became engineer for Northern Railway, 1845; chief engineer of Intercolonial Railway during its construction; engineer-in-chief of surveys for CPR, 1871-1880; proponent of 24-hour-per-day system of time reckoning and intra-imperial system of cable communication; created C.M.G. (1877), K.C.M.G. (1897); charter member of Royal Society of Canada, 1882; chancellor of Queen's University, 1880-1915; director of HBC and CPR for some years (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography). // Originally a letter to Hind; excerpt from Peel 427.